DE59709654D1 - LIGHT-SENSITIVE SENSOR UNIT FOR AN ELECTRONIC CAMERA, WITH A SURFACE ARRANGEMENT OF IMAGE POINTS AND METHOD FOR READING THE IMAGE POINTS FOR COLOR SIGNAL PROCESSING - Google Patents

LIGHT-SENSITIVE SENSOR UNIT FOR AN ELECTRONIC CAMERA, WITH A SURFACE ARRANGEMENT OF IMAGE POINTS AND METHOD FOR READING THE IMAGE POINTS FOR COLOR SIGNAL PROCESSING

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DE59709654D1
DE59709654D1 DE59709654T DE59709654T DE59709654D1 DE 59709654 D1 DE59709654 D1 DE 59709654D1 DE 59709654 T DE59709654 T DE 59709654T DE 59709654 T DE59709654 T DE 59709654T DE 59709654 D1 DE59709654 D1 DE 59709654D1
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image points
sensor unit
electronic camera
sensitive sensor
reading
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Ulrich Seger
Uwe Apel
Bernd Hoefflinger
Heinz-Gerd Graf
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STUTTGART MIKROELEKTRONIK
Institut fuer Mikroelectronik Stuttgart
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L27/00—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate
    • H01L27/14—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation
    • H01L27/144—Devices controlled by radiation
    • H01L27/146—Imager structures
    • H01L27/14601—Structural or functional details thereof
    • H01L27/1462—Coatings
    • H01L27/14621—Colour filter arrangements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L27/00—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate
    • H01L27/14—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation
    • H01L27/144—Devices controlled by radiation
    • H01L27/146—Imager structures
    • H01L27/14601—Structural or functional details thereof
    • H01L27/14603—Special geometry or disposition of pixel-elements, address-lines or gate-electrodes
    • H01L27/14605—Structural or functional details relating to the position of the pixel elements, e.g. smaller pixel elements in the center of the imager compared to pixel elements at the periphery
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/10—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof for transforming different wavelengths into image signals
    • H04N25/11—Arrangement of colour filter arrays [CFA]; Filter mosaics
    • H04N25/13—Arrangement of colour filter arrays [CFA]; Filter mosaics characterised by the spectral characteristics of the filter elements
    • H04N25/134—Arrangement of colour filter arrays [CFA]; Filter mosaics characterised by the spectral characteristics of the filter elements based on three different wavelength filter elements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/40—Extracting pixel data from image sensors by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels sampled or to be sampled
    • H04N25/46—Extracting pixel data from image sensors by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels sampled or to be sampled by combining or binning pixels
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/70—SSIS architectures; Circuits associated therewith
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/70—SSIS architectures; Circuits associated therewith
    • H04N25/71—Charge-coupled device [CCD] sensors; Charge-transfer registers specially adapted for CCD sensors
    • H04N25/745—Circuitry for generating timing or clock signals
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/70—SSIS architectures; Circuits associated therewith
    • H04N25/76—Addressed sensors, e.g. MOS or CMOS sensors

Abstract

Disclosed is a light sensitive sensor unit for an electronic camera comprising a flat, gridlike arrangement of pixels with columns and lines. The pixels are individually addressable by means of an address decoder and are connected in columns to read wires and can be read by a readout unit. The invention is characterized in that at least two read wires are provided in each column and are connected to pixels located in each column in addition to a readout unit so that a selected central pixel can be isochronously and electrically read, both independently and together with the directly and/or indirectly adjacent pixels forming a group together.
DE59709654T 1996-10-31 1997-10-30 LIGHT-SENSITIVE SENSOR UNIT FOR AN ELECTRONIC CAMERA, WITH A SURFACE ARRANGEMENT OF IMAGE POINTS AND METHOD FOR READING THE IMAGE POINTS FOR COLOR SIGNAL PROCESSING Expired - Lifetime DE59709654D1 (en)

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DE19644096 1996-10-31
DE19700381 1997-01-08
PCT/DE1997/002527 WO1998019270A2 (en) 1996-10-31 1997-10-30 Light sensitive sensor unit for an electronic camera with a flat arrangement of pixels and a method of reading pixels for colour signal processing

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